The world is in a bad way. Students need the skills to fix it | Tom Whyman

A new ‘interdisciplinary university’ offering a polymath education could be a good idea. But it must go beyond glib and superficial solutionsAt a time when every week’s weird weather seems to bring fresh news of how manmade climate change could destroy everything we know and love, it seems almost trite to point out that the challenges we face as a society are vast and complex. Clearly, the next generation will need to be equipped to tackle them: but assuming that “tacklin